The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-09-20
MORE THAN 7 GALLOWSES.
WHAT VIII HAPPEN IF WE HANG
THE ANARCHISTS.
-Four Thousand OF their sympathixers Meet
In Cooper Union. ana Most and schevitsch
Feed Them Well on Peppered Tongue.

-Four Thousand OF their sympathixers. Meet
In Cooper Union. and Most and schevitsch
Feed Them Well on Pcppered Tongue.
Socialists and Anarchists to the number Of
1000 gathered very quietly In Cooper Union
last evening. The 1000 included sisters and
wives in remarkably large proportion for a
public meeting and strong-lunged brass
band. whose leader looked like Henry George.
but wasn't Henry. The women and the music,
with some singing by chorus Of men added
to the effect Of peaceableness that was only
disturbed when 1t was seen how responsive oil
of both sexes were to the wild utterances
OF John Most. A black flag and red flag were
draped at the back Of the speakers stand, and
a passe pdrtom containing photographs OF the
seven condemned Chicago Anarchists was
affixed to the front OF the desk Tho frame was
draped in black and rcd and wreathed In
smilax.
Men and women read with avidity pro-
nunciamento from the Federation OF Trades
Unions which had called the meeting Copies
were handed about In the hall. One thing the
manifesto said was:
with t1s 6arsafous EOersoid. with ihe nona
!he SH, dInns ana with The sSSanars q
Judiciary" crime OF our times.
The ushers wore blood-red badges. Women
wore rcd ribbons. A storm Of applause greet
Walter Vrooman, the boy orator. presided.
and made the opening sneech. IN which he ad-
the and women before n, him 81
pared them to Christ and ali other agitators
8aads RH % Vi hs IOd
John Brown. He declared that their convic-
tion and sentence was the result OF con
The e nesting appiaaded s vrooman generously,
and Police Captain MeCullagh, who was around
good speaker. Then the assembly cried for
Most. and yrooman could get them to listen to
s spsR S Sy BY ras1s ass M Msss
read first In English and then in German,
s snd hey e dseaso Of that The
death sentence of "the seven representatives
of labor" In Chicago Is ,premeditated murder
ped ana fha
ancestors and will deserve the condemnation
and curses OF postenrity" II they allow the con-
Herr Most read the resolutions in German to
the meeting, and then went rent on with his speech
upon his unlovey face with a devotion that
heather who adore an Idol in direct proportion
to If The b%rde9 q hs speech was
ioIloTed BY an uprising that no one could fore
Music preceded Most's speech, the Mar
hum and wave hats ana RendEerchiefs in i Time
TO the tune. A collection was taken up. while
carried the baskets. and gathered a harvest Of
silver and a few bank notes. 1t was for tho
benefit {, Of the condemned men that the money
The meeting had four thousand Chairmen
sS2n ss The appa%ss f9r had
young vrooman obediently announced him. Mr..
Scheyitsch said that he was not an Anarchist,
but that the hanging Of these men would be a
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do1bt GO back then In Gods nams and we will be
y ssysa in the
o. a hs ~ snd e
United states eoyaIdly enough to permit they de-
ss be s
as they VIII be @ They ds';5 Ts to have the
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the resources OF cviliza,on The prohibtonists out
ase
the theory of the newspapers that they all copos
beer drinkers How do we know that the capitalists
hour strike did not have somebody to throw that bomb
fT n s xh sna 4sis re
cipal can be convicted
This s not Socialism or Anarehsm or any other ism.
This is first the law of the United States and second
the law Of humanity and Justice. tell the called in
tsligent classes don't be too quick with this banging
business and tho down rodden robbed murdered work
lowses for those seven In Chicago. But this may DO
averted 1t is Lie that want forcble revolution but
1t Is true that ready fos It.
Mrs. Bauditsch followed in German with O
speech that stirred the meeting even more
than did Herr Most. and she was not so long
about it, either.
Gen. Roger A. PRYOR concluded yesterday to
undertake the case OF the Anarchists.
To reporter he said: II am awaiting tho
arrival OF Capt. W. p. Black from Chicago with
the papers In the case. expect him here on
Mednesday. Whether we take the case to the
United States Supreme Court or not depends
upon my conference with Capt Black and an
examination Of the record"